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 Connecticut's First Stripers
 Daignault Meets Cinto After 30 Years
 Memories of Nauset Beach (Part I)
 Memories of Nauset Beach (Part II)
Bait Behavior: How It Affects Your Striper Surf
Bay City Fishing
Canal Stripers Have a Long Season
Casting Tips for Distance
Cow Country: A Look at Monster Striper Hot Spots
First Stripers -- Let the Game Begin
Flavor it Mackerel
Herring Choices for Spring Striper Fishing
Is Cape Cod Dying?
Memorable Stripers - An excerpt from The Trophy Striper
Moby Stripers Then and Now
Penetrating the Water Column
Surfcast? Are You Crazy?
Winning With Big Surf Stripers

Beyond the Keeper An excerpt from The Trophy Striper
"I'm not really sure how the tradition began, but the most acclaimed measure of a trophy striper is that of 50-pounds. Maybe it was a milestone that combined the right quantities of rarity and possibility. Reporting for the New York Times fall of '98 Andrea Kannapell, while interviewing Scott Parker from Montauk, quoted him about such fish: "..... a 50-pounder? he said. "I'd French-kiss it! I already told my wife, I catch a 50-pounder, ...." More >

Herring Choices for Spring Striper Fishing
"Whenever bass are in the vicinity of a herring run, you can usually hear them sloshing and rolling on the herring. The patient angler is certain to take any of these fish, if using live herring. However, if you are getting runs from the takes of bass and find the fish hard to hook, it is a clear sign that...."

How They Hit
"...hits are mouthed gently and noticed by a subtle tap, tap, tap that can barely be felt in the rod. Yet, unaccountably strikes will come - same bait and species - that are so violent that you have to bury the sand spike deep to keep from losing the rod. You would be surprised how many great fish have caught themselves while the eggs were frying on the tailgate."

Hurricane An excerpt from Twenty Years on the Cape
"...I couldn't get the hell out of there fast enough. Race Station had disappeared in a shroud of gray, there were no boats at sea, no planes in the sky. I could read the headlines: "Man dies in Cape Hurricane." More >

Inside Narragansett Bay
"Face it, weather considerations are a frequent fly in the fishing ointment. But many locations which are exposed to open water that carry passing hurricanes, nor'easters and lesser linestorms are adjacent to protected estuarine spots which both harbor good sport fishing and protection from often wild and silted water. You can save the trip by heading "inside". Places like the Cape Cod Canal, Narragansett Bay, Pleasant Bay, Great Bay, New Hampshire, Boston Harbor, to name only some on a way longer list, can keep you fishing when others have thrown in the towel."

Migrating Stripers: How Will You Do?
"Surfcasting in the Fall carries images of abundant bait, diving birds, crowds casting a wind beach, and more fish than you can use. We all know that wild fishing is the way it is supposed to be, but, frequently, what sounds good on paper is prevented from actually happening by conditions. There is no question that Fall blitzes will happen. Still, how often and with what intensity is determined by..."

Moby Stripers Then and Now
"Somehow the passage of time has a way of muddying the actual opportunities that the striper fishers had back in the old days. It is all quite natural but the spread of years, the passage of time, paints an altered picture of the opportunities that your father and uncles really had to catch moby stripers. It is a trap in how we view things that should be both clarified and remembered...."

Twenty Years on the Cape
"Once they passed into the cooler water east of Monomoy, the rythmn of their pace seemed to accelerate. There were a few thousand of them, their flanks glistening slightly among the ones nearer the surface. Still, from most anglers they were ghostlike because their lateral lines caused them to blend with the ever changing strat lines of the water and its bars.

They moved oblivious to the currents of the Monomoy Cut, unconscious to the rise in tide from the north, determined by a course set by a millennium of previous generations." More >

Your Big Striper Chances
"A truly big striper has to be drawn from natural advantages. A lean fish in May is the way she is because of winter, spawning, migration and the poor feeding opportunities of spring. Like the land, the sea has less forage to offer. By mid-summer, however, the seasons are working for you where bellies sag heavy with bait and the fish condition themselves for another cycle. That same fish will be bigger in the fall."

The Forgotten Cape
"All you ever hear about is the beach fishing on Nauset and in Provincetown. These spots are okay, I'll admit, but let's talk about the forgotten Cape, the part of Cape Cod that is often overlooked. Fishing Cape Cod without a buggy, daytime angling in a small charter boat, fly fishing the Monomoy flats, walking an unfettered shoreline with light tackle in the deep night. These are examples...."

Montauk on My Right
"And Provincetown on my Left" A StriperSurf exclusive, one of Frank's earliest articles, originally published in 1970 by Saltwater Sportsman Magazine.

Chris Chivers
The Legendary Return of Big Bass
"...Bob Celico turned his back to the wind and faced a twinkling surf. He slid a hook through the nose of a squirming eel, and sweeping an 11 ½ foot - long rod over his head, he heaved the bait into the darkness and slowly reeled it back, repeating this over and over until his shoulder grew tired. And then something rare happened. A school of enormous fish passed by."

The Lure That Got Away
Or did it? "Daignault threaded a hook through the hollow body of a Red Gill and rigged it as a teaser. And when he started lobbing this strange rig into the Cape Cod surf – wham – he found he could barely hold onto his rod."

Seasoned Salt - An interview with Frank Daignault
"There are many measures, most of them foolish, by which we judge fishing success. Daignault transcends them all and should be seen as a cultural treasure, a man who has evolved with the sport and documented its trends through firsthand observations."

Rocco DeTeso
Harbor Delights - Your Rod Sleeps with the Fishes
"Blinding and flashing lights hit us like a hammer, an overwhelming roar screamed in our ears. Dom's dark silhouette radiated light as he performed a little dance like a squirrel stuck in the middle of road dodging traffic. He ducked to the right, dodged to the left and finally broke towards dry land, rod and reel in hand, line dragging closely behind. Not a pretty sight, for this was once a proud man."

Massachusetts Salt Water Fishing License, A Different Opinion
"One of the most intelligent persons I have ever met was a fellow who agreed with most all of my opinions on everything. The most ignorant, uninformed lout I have ever met was an unwashed Neanderthal type. This guy didn't see one thing my way. In fact ...."

Jason Donnelly
Defining the Undefinable, Keeper Memories
"Happiness is water filled waders, a slippery rock, and a empty cooler."

This Tastes Like Bass!
"...life sure is turning into one giant conflict. I gotta work to fish and if I gotta work to fish then how the hell am I gonna fish if I'm at work?"

Bob Thomas, Jr
The Striper Fisherman
"Everyone gasps in amazement as the fish breaches the surface and with a splash, re-enters the water. This fish in huge! The angler is becoming exhausted from the fight but the brief sight of the fish gives him strength. With the rod bending and the drag of the reel screaming...."

Saltwater Fly Fishing in the Surf
Beach or Bait? Perspective on Surf Fishing & Beach Replenishment
Busting the Blues
Cabin Fever Stripers
Get'em with Sand Eel Imitations
Know Your Baits and Flies
Is it Fluke? - Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund
Shooting the Suds, Albies on the Fly
Simplifying Fly Lines
Slack Water Explained
Springtime Big Bass
Trophy Tactics
1998 The Year in Review
1999 The Year in Review
2002 The Year in Review
A Glimpse into 2008
A Quick Lesson for a Little Night Flying
A Word to the Wise...Wader
August, More than Meets the Eye
Bunker and Trophy Bass
Bunker, Bunker, and More Bunker and Big Bass Too!
Clams, Bunker, or Herring for Springtime Trophy Stripers
Coldwater Stripers, Dredging with the Fly
December’s End, Watching or Catching?
December's Grand Finale
Fall's Surf Smorgasbord
Fly Fishers-Pick Your Tools Wisely When Getting Started
Four Baits to Know For Your September’s Surf Success
January's Cabin Fever or Maybe Not
Jump to the Back for Early Spring Stripers
My March Madness
New Jersey’s “Striper Bounty”
November Trophies
October' Harvest in the Surf
Peanut Bunker Blitzes-Jersey Style
Running and Gunning, Proper Boating Etiquette
Saltwater Fly Fishing Perspective
September Surf
Spring Baits and Flies
Stretching into Spring
Striped Bass Game Plan of Summer
Striped Bass Game Plan of Summer (Part II)
Stripping for Success
Surf Scanning
Tackling Big December Bass on the Fly!
Ten Degrees of Blitzes
The 2004 Year in Review, Beach and Boat
The Longest Yard
Tips and Tidbits
Try for that Trophy Bass on the Fly!
Wind Direction and its Localized Effect on the Striper Bite

Fishing New England: A South Shore Primer
"Up the tide, down the tide, all season long, Rhode Island's south shore holds the possibility of trophy fish. But with twenty miles of oceanfront, much of it distinguishable only in its sameness, where should one begin? Which tide and time of year is best? What wind direction? Fortunately, one can never be one hundred percent sure. ."
Fishing Rhode Island On the Cheap
"Rhode Island's south facing beaches and inlets light up when a southwest wind flow develops and the fishing becomes much more reliable and easier to decipher. If you are planning a visit for the spring run, I recommend. ."
Staying Safe in the Surf
"This article will cast some light on what happens when things go terribly wrong while surfcasting and what can be done to prevent such unfortunate accidents."
I think for a moment. "I need to...."
The Efficient Surfcaster
"Ever find yourself on the beach fumbling for this-or-that while the fish are breaking, or ever get to your favorite spot only to find you forgot your pliers? Well - I have. By nature, I'm not the most organized person, but over time I've learned a few things that have helped me along. I've also had the shortcomings of my organizational ability pointed out to me in the way of missed fish and missed opportunities."
Dragging the Eel and Other Lessons Learned
"I confess, some time ago, while preparing to leave a small cove after a night of surf fishing, I committed a surfcasting sin: I decided to look into the water using a...."
What if the fish threw a blitz and nobody came!
"I glanced up, and was flabbergasted. From just inside the breachway, to perhaps three hundred yards seaward, and just as wide in every direction, was a thick mass of bait and stripers. Above this maelstrom swarmed dozens of large seabirds; herring gulls, black-back gulls, and gannets - all diving and feeding on big herring. It was one of the largest concentrations of fish I have ever seen. The fish were so close a one-armed fisherman could reach them with his worst cast."

Randy Kadish
Going Back Again
"A fiery corridor of reflected sunlight blazed at right angles to the advancing, gently breaking waves. The long beach was spotted with only a few clumps of people. Instantly, nature painted over the images in my mind of a fast-moving, automobile-choked, concrete city. Suddenly, I was as calm as the beach. The five years I had been away seemed to have collapsed into five days."

Steve Panus
Memories of the Navesink
"As luck would have it, another boat happened by, and the gentlemen on it had had a spectacular day with weaks and blues. They asked if we wanted any since they had so much, and we were more than happy to relieve them of some. Pop, being the joker he is, told the guys to "throw" them over so he could tell the women back home that we had "caught" them."

Hugh Welsh
Crabbing for Bass
"There was a four foot striped bass in three feet of water trying to shake the bunker head off the line. I stood there in shock for a second, then yanked the drop line somehow believing that the fish would choke on the head and I would get him. There was a huge boil and she was gone. "

Charles B. Church
Taking the Record Striped Bass of 1913
This is an extremely interesting and very impressive story. It was 1913, the era of split bamboo rods, reels without drags, braided linen fishing line, skiffs rather than big center console sport fishermen, and a man on the oars rather than outboard motors.

Romance and Bluefish
"Slowly I was becoming aware that there was some sound that had awakened me. ...it was the sound of screaming sea gulls .... It seemed that every sea gull in Rhode Island was wheeling and diving out over the surf. As I stumbled around for my gear, my excessive nymphet gave me a sleepy sigh from the bed, and raised one arm in a seductive ‘come hither’. I thought to myself.... "

Pete Thomas
Fishing's Fast Lane
With the shout, "Coming through!" Dennis Spike embarked on one of his patented "Baja sleigh rides," over a glassy sea glimmering with life, but with the stench of death filling the air.